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New FM On The Mountain

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Laurence Glavin

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I was checking the Actions at fcc.gov, and noticed that an FM CP was modified to change the City of License to Bretton Woods, NH; the call letters? WTTT, formerly used in Boston, and before that, in Amherst, MA. The station , operating at 98.7 (also used in the Seacoast Region), will blast out there with 40 watts directional from the summit of Mt. Washington! I wonder of people at the base will be able to pick it up. I think there's a travelers radio station on 88.1 atop Wa-wa-wachusett Mountain near Fitchburg, MA and it reaches the base, but only 2,000 feet up.
 
Laurence Glavin said:
I was checking the Actions at fcc.gov, and noticed that an FM CP was modified to change the City of License to Bretton Woods, NH; the call letters? WTTT, formerly used in Boston, and before that, in Amherst, MA. The station , operating at 98.7 (also used in the Seacoast Region), will blast out there with 40 watts directional from the summit of Mt. Washington! I wonder of people at the base will be able to pick it up. I think there's a travelers radio station on 88.1 atop Wa-wa-wachusett Mountain near Fitchburg, MA and it reaches the base, but only 2,000 feet up.
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Regarding Wachusett Mountain...

At one time the ski area operated a ski area info/traffic station at 88.3 FM. This would have been mid-to-late 90s (I worked in the Wachusett Mtn Communications office around that time.) They ran messages off a cassette tape with mountain info, and on weekends and holidays they would run tapes indicating which parking lots were open (the ski area has two overflow parking areas off-site), and also if tickets were sold out for the day. In the summertime they simply ran a tape with state park info and off-season activities. As I recall there was never a station ID, as I'm not sure this operation was "legal." I don't recall if mountain management decided to pull the plug on the station on their own, or if they got some heat from the FCC. Suffice it to say they haven't run this "station" in years.

I don't know EXACTLY where the transmitters were situated or how much power each gave off, but there were two different ones-- one for the immediate mountain vicinity, and another by exit 5 of I-190 in West Boylston. As I recall it, the on-mountain signal carried maybe three miles tops, as I couldn't pick it up where I lived in the southern half of Princeton. There were large blue highway signs that promoted the frequency on Route 2 in Westminster and 190 in West Boylston.

Also worth noting the tower facilities at the summit of Wachusett Mountain cannot be used by for-profit companies... only federal/state/municipal/military communications purposes may be served... it's a DCR edict, I think. Too bad, as the summit of Wachusett is the highest point in MA east of the Connecticut River.
 
THE_VIKING said:
Also worth noting the tower facilities at the summit of Wachusett Mountain cannot be used by for-profit companies... only federal/state/municipal/military communications purposes may be served... it's a DCR edict, I think. Too bad, as the summit of Wachusett is the highest point in MA east of the Connecticut River.
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Isn't WXLO up there?
 
Oldbones said:
THE_VIKING said:
Also worth noting the tower facilities at the summit of Wachusett Mountain cannot be used by for-profit companies... only federal/state/municipal/military communications purposes may be served... it's a DCR edict, I think. Too bad, as the summit of Wachusett is the highest point in MA east of the Connecticut River.
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Isn't WXLO up there?
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WXLO's tower is in Leominster, just outside Leominster State Forest. Probably about 4 miles east of the Wachusett summit.
 
I bet if AAF were on top of WAWA that would Boom from boston to hartford just like it did on Paxton. However, that would have to be a lot lower power or direction mainly because of adjacent and same frequency (WRWD) interference.

All stations within 175 miles of WAAF courtesy of radio-locator.com
W296AO (WJMJ) 107.1 FM 88.5 mi. New Haven, CT Religious
W296AT (WPYX) 107.1 FM 107.3 mi. Catskill, NY Classic Rock
W296BD (WOSR) 107.1 FM 148.6 mi. Warwick, NY Public Radio
W296BK (WTPL) 107.1 FM 66.6 mi. Concord, NH News/Talk
WERZ 107.1 FM 70.4 mi. Exeter, NH Top-40
WEVC 107.1 FM 154.8 mi. Gorham, NH Public Radio
WFFG 107.1 FM 120.6 mi. Corinth, NY Country
WFHN 107.1 FM 63.0 mi. Fairhaven, MA Top-40
WLIR 107.1 FM 106.2 mi. Hampton Bays, NY Alternative
WORK 107.1 FM 135.1 mi. Barre, VT Classic Hits
WXPK 107.1 FM 132.2 mi. Briarcliff Manor, NY Adult Album Alternative
WZLF 107.1 FM 70.4 mi. Bellows Falls, VT Country
W297AN (WMNR) 107.3 FM 105.8 mi. Danbury, CT Classical
WAAF (CP) 107.3 FM 6.5 mi. Worcester, MA Rock
WRWD 107.3 FM 119.7 mi. Highland, NY Country
W298AH (WZLF) 107.5 FM 81.8 mi. Claremont, NH Country
WBLS 107.5 FM 154.4 mi. New York, NY Urban Contemporary
WFCC 107.5 FM 99.2 mi. Chatham, MA Classical
WFNK 107.5 FM 138.7 mi. Lewiston, ME Classic Hits


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